An international team of researchers developed a new method based on a machine learning algorithm to analyze a large dataset of human fossils from the European Ice Age. The decline in population ...

A large-scale study of fossil human teeth from Ice Age Europe shows that climate change significantly influenced the ...

The clues to this forgotten climate saga weren’t discovered in ice cores or tree rings but rather in human memories — diaries ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

Without that warm air, temperatures in northern Europe would plummet, and that could spawn a mini ice age, according to some experts. That's not even the worst of it. Take a look at what will ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

The Little Ice Age, which lasted around 500 years, had a profound impact on the environment and the people who lived around Lake Ontario.